Visiting Artist Lecture: Amber Hawk Swanson, Video/Performance Artist

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Free and open to the public. Amber Hawk Swanson explores the interplay between repulsion, desire, and surrender. She relies on spatial and temporal relationships inherent in ritualized settings such as weddings, rollerskating rinks, and American-football tailgating parties. Each of her selected scenarios evokes nostalgia and camaraderie in spaces where the human impulses of curiosity, longing, […]

Portland Food Co-op Lecture

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Farmland Trust and Portland Food Co-op will host a panel discussion to explore ways that eaters can make more informed climate-friendly food choices. Local experts — land and sea farmers, researchers, and food system advocates– will highlight ways we can each push back against climate change with our forks and support innovative ways of producing […]

Lorem Ipsum Theater Collective: The Great Play Reading Series

Lorem Ipsum Theater Collective: The Great Play Reading Series   The Great Play Reading Series: Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles Free and open to the public, “The Great Play Reading Series” is happening this Sunday, March 13, at 4:00pm in MECA&D’s Osher Hall (second floor). Join us as we welcome Lorem Ipsum Theater Collective who will perform The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy […]

Maine Jewish Film Festival : Once in a Lifetime

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Maine College of Art & Design is one of the venues for 2016 Maine Jewish Film Festival. "Once in a Lifetime" is filming tonight, 7:30 pm. Tickets are required, please go to www.mjff.org for tickets and more information.

Maine Jewish Film Festival Short Film Program

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Maine College of Art & Design is one of the venues for 2016 Maine Jewish Film Festival. Short film program tonight, 8:00 pm. Tickets are required, please go to www.mjff.org for tickets and more information.

Maine Jewish Film Festival: Touchdown Israel: Tackle Football in the Holy Land and Blush

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Maine College of Art & Design is one of the venues for 2016 Maine Jewish Film Festival. “Touchdown Israel: Tackle Football in the Holy Land” at 6:30 pm and "Blush" at 8:30 pm. Tickets are required, please go to www.mjff.org for tickets and more information.

Maine Jewish Film Festival: Sheherazade and the Kosher Delight, Arabic Movie, and Jeruzalem

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Maine College of Art & Design is one of the venues for 2016 Maine Jewish Film Festival. "Sheherazade and the Kosher Delight" at 6:30 pm, "Arabic Movie" at 7:00 pm, and "Jeruzalem" at 8:00 pm. Tickets are required, please go to www.mjff.org for tickets and more information.

MECA&D: Through & Through, A Special Comprehensive Exhibition

Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, United States

MECA&D: Through & Through, a special comprehensive exhibition of student work prepared for MECA&D’s ten-year accreditation visit, is open to the public on Wednesday, March 23rd. In preparation for MECA&D’s ten-year accreditation visit by a peer review team from both the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and the National Association of Schools […]

Catching the Sun: Public Engagement + Sierra Club monthly film series

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Public Engagement + Sierra Club monthly film series Join us to watch Catching the Sun, a film highlighting solar power’s benefits around the world, before it premieres in NYC in early April. This event is free and open to the public. The film is 90 minutes in length and there will be a panel afterwards […]